http://vbdems.blogspot.com/2006/09/dem-rockstars-on-video.html#linksRight winger:
Webb’s fantastic interview?!?!? Wow, we really do see what we want. Yes, watch the video! Watch Webb avoid the questions on paid bloggers. Watch Webb skirt the issue that it is his surrogates who are on a witch hunt to “Out the Jew”. What as Webb has to justify his staff’s actions in this attitude towards Jewish people as if being Jewish is this horrible thing. Trust me, the video will be available in short order for all to see. You all know where to look.
Sure spin it as if Allen was ‘hiding’ his heritage. Webb was asked if that was the case and he would not answer it. The issue is Progressives contempt for Jews, Israel and their underlying resentment of a people they blame for so much. Trust me, I will blog about this subtle attitude towards the Jewish people. Allen is now feeling the what Miller felt. Should we expect hook-nose cartoons of Allen as we saw with the Miller attacks?
And, me:
The bloggers you refer to at RK (I think that's who you mean) are, in fact, all Jewish. I just don't see how a Jew can be anti-semitic, but perhaps y'all can explain that to me. I read a comment from "Teacherken" as well as other Jewish bloggers that they were very insulted that Allen had referred to the reporter's question as an "aspersion". Now perhaps Mr. Allen simply did not know what the word meant (I believe he has used this defense in the past), but it means to malign or speak evil of. The statement he gave the next day was much better, and I am truly puzzled he didn't speak that way on the day of the debate.
Overall, I agree with my friends across the aisle that this issue should be dropped. It's simply irrelevant to Virginians, and all the brouhaha about it is getting quite silly . . .
Just like in 2003, when the Boston Globe sprung info on John Kerry of Jewish grandparents, and then attacked him for saying he was Irish, which in fact, he never had. They had all just ASSUMED he was Irish, and he just didn't bother to correct them, the nerve of him. Oddly enough, David Frum at the National Review feels very similarly:
http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWIzYWRkZTg3MzYzNzEzMjFjZmRiNDNjZDE4MzU4NjY=Sep. 20, 2006: Allen & Media Bias
It really is outrageous that people would suggest that George Allen has been the victim of media bias. Of course they would behave in an exactly similar way to a similarly situated Democrat. Remember how the press fiercely grilled Sen. John Forbes Kerry about his ancestry and background - how they demanded to know why he had presented himself as Irish all these years when in fact his paternal grandparents were Jews from Vienna who had changed their name from the original Kohn - and how the reporters insinuated that Kerry was either ashamed of himself or else secretly antisemitic when he implausibly denied that he had ever had any idea of his background until jourrnalists discovered it for him. Remember? Anybody?
Finally, guys, antisemitism abounds everywhere including in your own brethen. Perhaps you should work on cleaning your own house before moving onto ours:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2004-08-10-book-author-sorry_x.htmAnti-Kerry book author sorry for slurs
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the authors of a new anti-John Kerry book frequently posted comments on a conservative Web site describing Muslims and Catholics as pedophiles and Pope John Paul II as senile.
But as he prepared to launch the book, "Unfit for Command," Jerry Corsi apologized for the remarks in an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday, saying they were meant as a joke and he never intended to offend anyone.
snip
In a March posting, Corsi discussed Kerry's faith, writing: "After he married TerRAHsa, didn't John Kerry begin practicing Judaism? He also has paternal grandparents that were Jewish. What religion is John Kerry?"
Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, are Catholic.
By beachmom1, at 2:50 PM